StreetLaughter

Ken Pyne, “Punch” 2 December 1981 From the early days of what we would now call multiculturalism, this cartoon offers all the possibl...

by Phil Interlandi in "Playboy", October 1975 Well, yes. Doesn't it just.

“Physical Culture”, body-building, call it what you will. Is it just a desire to build up a more manly physique to attract the ladies, or do...

Playboy, January 1975 Heartburn, Nora Ephron 1983: “I picked up the remote control unit and turned on the television set. There was ...

Playboy, May 1993 Feiffer hadn’t had a cartoon in “Playboy” for almost the last two years prior to this, and that was when he was doing...

Playboy, November 1968 The first five panels are traditional Jules Feiffer : the monologue in which a man lays out his condition of co...

“Playboy”, June 1969 The point of interest in this two page excerpt from this late instalment of “Hostileman” is Jules Feiffer’s take ...

Playboy, January 1967 Jules Feiffer Jules Feiffer first began to publish his distinctive cartoon strips in “The Village Voice...

“Playboy”, May 1969 Robert Censoni In this cartoon, almost contemporary with the last sketch, Censoni presents the standard late 1960s ...

by Vahan Shirvanian Playboy, May 1975 Is this taken from an existing advertisement for a gay bar of the time? Don’t know. Is it inf...

Charles Rodrigues Playboy, December 1967 Did straight bars of the 1960s really feature giant paintings of naked ladies? How would I kn...

Alden Erikson “Playboy” March 1965 A cartoon that at the time can be assumed to speak for itself. The readers will know what these men...

Gay bars and discos are an opportunity to show a whole load of homosexuals in one place. What do they do? How do they behave together? What ...

And in similar vein to the last of the Anita Bryant cartoons, what can be made of the cartoon’s cliché of the castaways on a desert island? ...

Malcolm Hancock “Playboy” February 1978 Not much to say about this, as silence can be so eloquent sometimes, which is why it’s only ta...

“Playboy” August 1979 Writer: Harvey Kurtzman Artist: Will Elder The last page from an instalment of Kurtzman and Elder's lavishl...

A few more spot gags from the time, with references to “Fruits”, “Fairies”, “Queens”, and an implied “Queer” (as a three dollar bill). ----...

"Star Spats" By Laurence Gonzales in "Playboy", December 1977 Back to the soul-sinking chronicle of fag jokes. I am Ixio...

A small selection of jokes which will stand in for all the other occasions when cartoonists and humorists have used the same joke. Not that ...

Charles Rodrigues In “National Lampoon”, May 1970 I’ll confess this one is a bit of a guess. But hey, he’s riding side-saddle (see poem belo...